From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 4 21:49:17 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA21951 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 May 1998 21:49:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net (pm3-4-12.stratos.net [207.86.132.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA21938 for ; Mon, 4 May 1998 21:49:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) From: drifter@stratos.net Received: from stratos.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by stratos.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA00818; Tue, 5 May 1998 00:46:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805050446.AAA00818@stratos.net> To: jack , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: device busy... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 04 May 1998 00:42:56 EDT." Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 00:46:58 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ reposted to questions -- sorry about the post to the inappropriate mailing list ] On MON 04 MAY 1998, 00:42:56 EDT, jack@germanium.xtalwind.net wrote: >On Mon, 4 May 1998 drifter@stratos.net wrote: > >> Just as a note, I tried umount /usr a couple days ago when I was >> backing up some file systems. I was in single user mode. It would not >> allow me to, saying the device was busy. So I remounted /usr, and did >> an lsof, and found no files using /usr except lsof and more, which the >> output >> of lsof was being piped to. >> This happened to me one other time. Does anyone have any ideas? > >What was your working directory at the time? Couple of people have asked me this... But unfortunately I do remember that I was in /root, not a /usr directory. So I am still left mystified. -drifter@stratos.NOSPAMISGOODSPAM.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message